Shredded-wheat biscuit.



p 505; .f QQJOODSANDBEVERAGES f No. 820,899. PATENTED MAY 15, 1906.

W. E. WILLIAMS.

SHREDDED WHEAT BISCUIT.

LPPLIOATION FILED oc1.4,19o4.

sired direction.

The size and form of the cupare such that UNITED STATES P ATENT oriuop.

WILLIAM ERASTUS WILLIAMS, or"( IHICAGO, .IILINoISf,A

sHREDDr-:D-WHEAT Blsjolri. 'i No. 820,899, specification of Letters Patent. Patented n tai 1`5, 19'oe'.

Apfumion mea october 4, 1904. seriaiiiaazzig. 'i t' certain new and useful Improvements in Shredded-Wheat Biscuits, of which the foling is a specification.

The object of my invention is to rovide a biscuit of pleasingappearance that sIIall have many advantages over biscuits heretofore in use. With this end in view, suitable food materials are converted into filamentary form and then made into cup-shaped biscuits.

, In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is an axial section of such a cup-shaped biscuit.

Fig. 2 is a top plan view of the same biscuit. Fig. 3 shows the biscuit in Side view.

An suitable material may be used, but cerca s, and preferably whole wheat, corn, barley, rye.or oats, or some blending of them, is employed.

Whatever'the material the filaments are assembled in the form of a cup A, preferably having all its walls of approximate'iy thesame thickness, which may be varied :as-de. sired, and, as appears from the drawin s the filaments 'are so arranged that althoug ilfey interlace by passing toward and away'from the interior of the cup the general course of.'

nearly all of them is around the cu in va; rious directions, the result being t atf the structure has a peculiar nest-like appearance Awhile an axial section shows princlpallyfilaf.

ment ends. l

The biscuit described may be formed in lanysuitable manner, for example, by ently forcing into a suitable cavity or mold t e de.-

sired quantity of more or less interlaced fibers having for the most part the same gen-" eral direction, the fibers being given a somewhat annular direction, either beforehand or while they are passing into the cup. In the latter case the cup. may be rotated or the fibers themselves may be carried in the del it approximately fits the dishes in which such foods'areordinarily serve dyand obviously l cream and sugaror. the like may be placed'inI -5'o the cavity B, whencethespongefflike biscuit absorbs them.

This biscuit entirely'eliminates the evils incident to pouring cream u onthe convex i surface of biscuit whose en sorjsomefila-l ments of them often4 project beyond the margin of the containing dish. It Jhas: ad'- vantages also in that its comparatively thin shell is readil broken down with a spoon or fork and in tiri and many other articles of food may be very conveniently served in the cup and thus a great variety of ap etizing and healthful.

dishes may be quic y formed with this biscuit as a basis.

'The biscuit beingmerely a thin shell in comparison with the ordinary biscuit, it is quic y and evenly baked and its ex osed surface is relatively so large that near y all the filaments of the whole mass of the bis-v cuit is made brown and brittle, either originally or when slight dampness has lessened the .verydesirable cris ness.

,The biscuit being o such a li ht filamen- -tary character has the quality o tenderness or crispness without the use of any leavening `orsho1t'eni'ng material and because it contains11.0Suclfiioreign material it readily takes on theflavor of even delicately-fiavored Afoods' placed Awithin it.

1. A cupshaped biscuit made up of inter# laced cereal-filaments Whose general courses are around. the cup in various directions,

forming a nest-like structure.

2. A cu '-shaped biscuit having its walls made up o interlaced cereal filaments form- -ing a nest-like structure with a rounded ed e. the general course of which is approximatei;r

followed by the filaments visable at that edge. Signed at Chicago the 28th day of September, 1904.

WILLIAM ERASTUS W'HILIAliIS.` Witnesses:

ROBT. C. BORN, CEoIL BRoNsoN.

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